[lwc]

@bazis wrote:

Any USB flash drive will leave exactly the same “leftovers” in any system.

Yes, but USB devices can be easily removed with a software like USBDeview.

[lwc]

The new portable version leaves leftovers too. Here’s a reg file to delete them:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}003]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlDeviceClasses{53f56308-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}##?#BazisVirtualCDBus#StandardDevice#PortableVirtualCD_0000#{53f56308-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlDeviceClasses{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}##?#BazisVirtualCDBus#StandardDevice#PortableVirtualCD_0000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumBazisVirtualCDBusStandardDevicePortableVirtualCD_0000]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumRootLEGACY_BAZISPORTABLECDBUS]

[lwc]

Or at least use SourceForge’s facility (uploading a text file and signaling it as a changelog).

[lwc]

@bazis wrote:

just reverting them to old values won’t be an option.

Nor should it be. What should be done is deleting those keys and, like you said, other programs in the future could re-register them.

Asking the user to restart just to have the last files removed “here and now”…would be unreasonable.

But you control the message. You can write something like “a restart is needed but only to remove some leftovers. You can continue working safely without an immediiate restart. Do you still wish to restart right now? Yes/No” (you can even put the default on “no”).

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